In 1933, Carl Jung said, "the prepared everything [that] start to the second half of life ... But you can not live the afternoon of li...
In 1933, Carl Jung said, "the prepared everything [that] start to the second half of life ... But you can not live the afternoon of life according to the morning of life program for what in the morning was great, is in night little, and the morning was true at night will have become a lie. "
It is not wrong. Many of us are by the continuing challenges we surprised when our lives towards progress.
For women over fifty specific challenges can be disturbing. Faced with changes in the body, major life transitions and changes in the values, women are faced with a culture that does not provide a clear direction.
The result? Women can feel insecure, isolated or invisible.
At the same time, it can not try, arise in the psyche an emerging sense of transition and opportunity, a new story.
As a professional psychologist, I consider myself confident enough. Until the fifties, he had to be a healthy sense of myself as a woman, a sex and a viable person in the world. But one day in my mid-fifties, while in the street, I thought I had internal self-image of a dumpling ... ... A comforting soft ball poorly defined, rolling along unnoticed.
Many women have a similar experience. There is a lack of visibility, which defines the experience of many women over fifty. Suddenly they see us as powerful. We do not threaten a strong, commanding or erotic manner. We are not considered vital and productive leaders.
We see how my own image ball, as rounded, benign and invisible.
But there is a much more serious side of the story.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that women 40-59 years have the highest rates of depression of any age or gender more disturbing in the United States, reports the National Center for Health Statistics recently found that the rate of suicide among women Mid Adult, 45-64 years, 63 percent has risen since 1999th
Obviously, these results Bandera The need for a deeper understanding of this complex phase in the life of women, because although the median age and median age, which covers about thirty or forty years, there is little research as a true developmental stage in life in general represented.
This is a time when hormones fluctuate and change places; leave the children's house, the members disappear and jobs disappear; and more: the disease is established parents die, lose friends and brothers.
change our values. We think differently, we take care of different things. Objectives thinking uncertain and fuzzy sound. New requests subsurface rumble. The transience of life never breaks through our conscience and it seems harder and get less motivation easy to carry.
But still, where?
At this point we follow a school card, marriage, children, career, beware. There were roads and rituals: graduations, weddings, baby shower, child-rearing.
But now ... where the map leads?
Uncertainty is the new footing.
So what do we do? Let's start with the questions that need to be made.
How can we understand the biological changes and their impact on women aged fifty and eighties?
How is the psychological needs and opportunities for middle-aged women and middle-aged end has changed in recent decades?
What cultural narratives that middle-aged women surrounded late and inform?
And how can we diversify these stories?
has started a new conversation; a new consciousness to come.
By this week, research, cultural visibility and updated maps, we can live tweak to convert packet of maturity of the coated respiratory young night in the new truth of our lives.
